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Currently at the MuseumIn a guided tour, you can visit the following features of the Old Ursuline Convent now:
- The Ursuline Room: learn how the Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans in 1727 and made a home here.
- The Story of the Catholic Church in New Orleans: you can learn about Catholicism in the French Quarter and beyond.
- The National Shrine of St. Lazarus: see the Shrine established by the Order of St. Lazarus.
- St. Mary's Church: see the chapel built for the archbishops of New Orleans in the 19th century, later named "St. Mary's Italian Church" because it served the newly arrived Italian immigrants of the French Quarter beginning in the late 1800s.
- Eternal Life: our exhibit on funeral and cemetery traditions in New Orleans.
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